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Edition 10  Date: March 18,
2005
Sherwood Ohio.com
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Around Sherwood
Sherwood Postmaster retires
A 25-year career in the U.S.
Postal Service ended in January for Sherwood's postmaster Ruth Barber.
Barber, who was born and raised in nearby Mark Center, Oh., began her
postal service in Sherwood in 1979. She worked as a clerk from 1979-86
in Sherwood post office under Victor Ramus, Sherwood’s previous
Postmaster, and then transferred to Defiance. Besides Defiance, she also
worked in Jewell and Edon, where she was a postmaster for about one year
in 1989. An opening came up in Sherwood for a postmaster, so she
transferred back here. Altogether she has worked for the U.S. Postal
Service for 25 years. To read more on Ruth's retirement check out the
Sherwood News link on the home page.
Friends of the Sherwood Library
"The Friends of the Sherwood Branch Library are
planning ahead for the month of June and Sherwood's Homecoming on June 25th.
In preparation for a month long exhibit at the library entitled "Here Comes
the Bride", a wedding album of local residents is being created and a call
has gone out for wedding photos. The wedding need not to have taken place in
Sherwood, but the bride and groom should be (or have been) connected with
the community at some point in their life. A copy of a wedding photo
submitted to the library will be made for the album and the original will be
returned. The following information should accompany the photo: name of
bride, name of groom, location of wedding, date of wedding and any other
interesting information. A newspaper clipping documenting the wedding may
also be useful and if submitted a copy will made. Photos submitted early
enough will be displayed in the album at the Lions Club "Heritage Bridal
Gown Showcase" fund-raiser for Sherwood Memorial Park to be held at the
Fairview Elementary School on Saturday, April 23, 2005. Wedding photos and
newspaper clippings may be dropped off at the Sherwood Library."
The Heritage Bridal Gown
Showcase
Saturday, April 23, 2005, 2:30 P.M. Fairview Elementary
School
The Sherwood Memorial
Park Revitalization Committee together with The Sherwood Area Lions Club
invite you to attend
The Heritage Bridal Gown
Showcase
to raise funds for a "Special Needs Garden". More than a dozen gowns
will be displayed and modeled. Music as well as light refreshments will
be provided and there will be door prizes and a raffle.
All proceeds from the
event will be applied to the construction of a "Special Needs Garden" as
part of the revitalization of Sherwood Memorial Park. Plans for the
garden include raised planters that will enable visually impaired,
wheelchair bound or physically challenged individuals to enjoy gardening
at a level that is comfortable for them. The design will be unique to
Sherwood and will give opportunity to community groups to participate at
many levels.
Tickets for the event
can be purchased for a $6.00 donation. Under twelve ~ free will
donation. Tickets are available and can be purchased at both branches of
the Sherwood State Bank or from Revitalization Committee or Lions
members. For further information please call 419-899-3868. Checks should
be made to "The Sherwood Area Lions Club" with an annotation "Sherwood
Memorial Park".
Light Refreshments
Provided
Sponsors to date:
ColorScapes Gardens and Landscaping
Sherwood State Bank
Cordi Nates Weddings
Kelley Phillips - Singer
Sandra DeVaux - Specialty Baking
Michelle Kleinhen - Stampin' Up Demonstrator and Silk Flower Designs
Need Pampered? - Hair, Nail and Tanning Salon
Susan Fisher - Painting and Stained Glass Artist
Ila Rush - Vagabond Village
Hilltop Printing
Neighborhood Watch
Back before the first of the year
we heard Police Chief Charles Fitzwater was working on a
project and funding for some sort of neighborhood watch
program. Can't tell you much on the program, but a
neighborhood watch does not sound like a bad idea. If some
one would give Charles a nudge and send him this way maybe
we could help him in his venture.
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Sherwood Lions
Annual Easter Egg Hunt
At
Moats Park
Saturday March 19 10am |
We are
Moving
DeVault's
Mini-Mart
Click here for more
info |
Sherwood Homecoming
June 25th |
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Central Local Schools
Lady Apaches
Congratulations to the Fairview Lady
Apaches Varsity Basketball team. They showed that they are a team to be
taken seriously. Having already won the GMC title for the second year in
a row, the Lady Apaches beat Archbold 65 - 51 to give them the Division III District
Championship and moved them into the regional play-offs. The Lady Apaches
(19-5) played Patrick Henry (22-1) in the first round of regional play-off, The
Apaches lost this game but not without a fight. The Lady Apaches held
the lead for the first two quarters, then after halftime the Lady
Patriots came out with fire under them and after 11 turnovers by
Fairview gave the Patriots the lead in the third quarter and finally the
win. The Lady Patriots then moved to the State semi-finals play-offs
in Columbus where they won the first round and lost in the finals.
Again, congratulations to the Fairview Lady Apaches for a fine year.
School
Superintendent resigns
Central Local
Schools Superintendent James C. Fetzer has submitted his resignation
effective July
31st. and said the resignation was due to personal reasons beyond his
control. Mr. Fetzer said he has enjoyed his
time at Fairview and will miss, the opportunity to serve the community
and students. 'The staff and administration are quality people dedicated
to the learning and welfare of our students," he said. "Our
state report scores are excellent (the highest score
in
the rating
system)," he continued, "the Fairview Elementary School building is a
source of pride and the future looks good for our community."
Superintendent Fetzer, who has 29 years in the education system, has
been with the Central Local School since May I, 2002, when he was hired
to replace Steven Young.
Mr. Fetzer came to Central Local
from West Holmes County, where he had served as principal for seven
years. His work history also includes five years as high school
principal in Hicksville. He says he has no immediate plans to move from
the home near Ney he shares with wife, Judy, and daughter, Janelle, who
is a junior at Fairview. Son Jacob who lives near Columbus is about to
make Mr. Fetzer a grandfather, and son Josh is a student at Baldwin
Wallace College.
Spring
Celebration of the Arts
Central Local Schools will host its
sixth annual Spring Celebration of the Arts from 5-8 p.m. March 22 at
Fairview High and Middle schools. The theme for this year is "6th
Sense."
The show will feature elementary, middle and high school
vocal, instrumental music and dance presentations, K-12 art displays and
many hands-on arts activities, including some planned by the Violets
committee. Middle school computer classes will display PowerPoint
presentations and other student projects. Students will also teach
lessons to create business cards or address labels. Industrial
technology and CAD students, agriculture students and FCCLA students
will display their projects as well, and the junior master gardener club
will have a display. Concessions will be operated by the music boosters.
They will serve sandwiches, snacks and soft drinks. Krispy Kreme
doughnuts will be available individually or for $5 a dozen.
Teachers involved in the planning of this event are music
teachers Rachel McCurdy, Kari Rosania, Lura Jeffery and Shirley Killian;
art teacher Denise Pannell; physical education teacher Lauren Beck;
computer instructor Lydia Johnston; industrial technology / CAD teacher
Linda Gallup; vocational agriculture teacher Valerie Kessler; FCCLA
adviser Jill Speiser; master gardener Anita Rethmel; and Violets
committee member Celeste Rossman.
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Around the Area
Defiance
County Economic Development
Matt
Gilroy, Assistant Director for the Defiance
County Economic Development Group passed this information on to us
about the
Northwest Ethanol
Plant that has been
in the works for several years. Matt went on to say that
on Tuesday March
15th, Nathan Kimpel, the COO of New Energy spoke to the
Hicksville Rotary during their weekly meeting. Mr. Kimpel manages
an ethanol plant for New Energy in South Bend, Indiana. Northwest
Ethanol LLC., a group of investors and business people in Defiance
County, have been working extremely hard over the past four years to
develop an ethanol plant in Mark Township in-between Hicksville and
Sherwood.
Northwest
Ethanol LLC, have sold their plans for development of an ethanol
plant to New Energy, which is based in Cincinnati. If all
conditions are appropriate and the proper permits can be obtained,
New Energy plans to develop a 100 gallon per day ethanol plant in
Mark Township. Investment for the proposed plant would reach above
$100 million and the company would employ approximately 60 people.
If this project comes to fruition it would be an economic boon for
Defiance County, especially those living near Sherwood and
Hicksville. The economic development office is excited to assist
with the proposed project and we look forward to working with New
Energy and all of the other individuals and organizations involved.
Mr. Kimpel provided a website to the group that better explains
ethanol plants and their economic impact. The website is:
www.ethanolrfa.org
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Sherwood Ohio .com
Sorry not much is going on lately in Sherwood.
But at the .com we always have something going on. Added a new page for
Sherwood Churches and put the link up for Sherwood Summer Ball. Hope to get
you all a little more info this year on Sherwood Summer Baseball and finally got a new Camera for some
more action shots. I am looking for some feed back on online coupons. Am
thinking about putting together some pages with local vendor coupons, what
do you think?
Traffic across the website has averaged better
than 1000 visits for the last several months and for the month of March we
are tracking at a all time high of over 1100 visits. Some of the top
searched keywords for the month have been as follows #1
sherwood ohio, #2 fire grant, #3 fairview apaches, #4 sherwood fairview
softball pictures, #5 village of sherwood ohio #6 sherwood state bank, #7
central local schools, #8 fairview apaches girls basketball.
The May newsletter will include more pictures
as I have not figured out the new camera yet. Thank you all for your visits
and support. The traffic across the website shows me that somebody is
enjoying my stuff. Next newsletter will be in May, until then this is
Bobbybee signing off from downtown Deadwood.
One last item, we have posted some pictures in
the Sherwood History link on the main page that have been sent by others,
take a look. Glenda Hinkle sends this next picture for your enjoyment, she
said she found it behind the baseboard in her dining room when they were
remodeling their house.
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